Milena Desse
filmmaker
Brussels, BE
memory colonial history narratives forgetting analog traces poetryAbout
Milena Desse is a French artist based in Brussels. She works in various formats and
mediums, such as media-installations, performance, writing, and film. Her artistic research
and practice focus on forms of disappearance and revelation, of memorising and forgetting,
and on their resonance with storytelling and transmission: looking closer at transformation of
stories through time and generations.
Her work has been shown internationally in FID (Marseille, France), Qattan Foundation
(Ramallah, Palestine), Khalil Sakakini Cultural Center (Ramallah, Palestine), Khiasma
(Paris, France), ARGOS center for art and media (Brussels, Belgium), Kaaistudios
(Brussels), KHM Gallery (Malmö, Sweden), Kunstbiograf at Artoteket (Copenhagen,
Denmark), and Netwerk centrum voor hedendaagse kunst (Alost, Belgium).